1 John 4:12

NASB

1 John 4:12

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New American Standard Bible

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

King James Version

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Holman Bible

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.

International Standard Version

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

A Conservative Version

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

American Standard Version

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

Amplified

No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us.

An Understandable Version

No person has gazed upon God [at any time]; [but] if we love one another, God [continually] lives in our hearts, and His love is made complete within us.

Anderson New Testament

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Bible in Basic English

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

Common New Testament

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Daniel Mace New Testament

no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere.

Darby Translation

No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

No one has seen God, at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is made perfect in us.

Godbey New Testament

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

Goodspeed New Testament

No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

John Wesley New Testament

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Julia Smith Translation

None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us.

King James 2000

No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Lexham Expanded Bible

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Modern King James verseion

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.

Moffatt New Testament

God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

Montgomery New Testament

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

NET Bible

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

New Heart English Bible

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Noyes New Testament

No one hath ever seen God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Sawyer New Testament

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

The Emphasized Bible

Upon God, hath no one, at any time, gazed: If we love one another, God, in us, abideth, and, his love, hath been perfected within us.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Twentieth Century New Testament

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.

Webster

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Weymouth New Testament

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

Williams New Testament

No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,

World English Bible

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Worrell New Testament

No one has ever beheld God. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

Worsley New Testament

No one hath ever seen God: but if we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us.

Youngs Literal Translation

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

Themes

God » Trust in » Unseen

Love » The source of love

God, Love Of » Perfected in saints » By brotherly love

Perfection » Some essential elements of » Obedience

Seeing » No man seeing God

Topics

Fulness

Restored In Jesus Christ

Perfection, Human

Revelation, Necessity Of

Confidence And Self Esteem

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Strong's

Root Form

Definition

Usage

No man

G3762

οὐδείς
Oudeis

no man, nothing, none, no, any man, any, man, neither any man,

Usage: 160

hath seen

G2300

θεάομαι
theaomai

see, behold, look, look upon

Usage: 18

God

G2316
G2316

θεός
theos
θεός
theos

God, god, godly, God-ward ,
God, god, godly, God-ward ,

Usage: 1151
Usage: 1151

at any time

G4455

πώποτε
Popote

at any time, yet never Trans, never, never

Usage: 3

G1437

ἐάν
Ean

if, whosoever 9, whatsoever 9, though,

Usage: 155

we love

G25

ἀγαπάω
Agapao

love, beloved

Usage: 92

one another

G240

ἀλλήλων
Allelon

one another, themselves, yourselves,

Usage: 85

dwelleth

G3306

μένω
meno

abide, remain, dwell, continue, tarry, endure,

Usage: 85

G1722
G1722

ἐν
En
ἐν
En

in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,

Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

G2254

ἡμῖν
hemin

us, we, our, for us

Usage: 160

and

G2532

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and

Usage: 0

his

G846

him, his, their, he, her, they, same, himself,

Usage: 0

love

G26

ἀγάπη
Agape

love, charity, dear, charitably+ 9, feast of charity

Usage: 105

G2076

ἐστί
Esti

is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is

Usage: 585

perfected

G5048

τελειόω
Teleioo

make perfect, perfect, finish, fulfil, be perfect, consecrate

Usage: 18

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Brotherly Love

John, Epistles of

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John the Baptist

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Prayers for 1 John 4:12

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Questions on 1 John 4:12

Has Anyone Ever Seen God?

Context Readings

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

1 John 4:12

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